Who would really enjoy this book? An art history, marketing, or communications professor who doesn’t yet grok the significance and importance of Creative Commons. In all honestly, considering the 2007 publication date of the OurSpace by Christine Harold, I was hoping for a deep dive into all the culture under the Creative Commons license. Harold …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Twitter Ends Friendship
In a move that should rock the ‘social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, …
Wanted: WPMU + S3
5k – 28:11
Nike Bug was off by 150-220 meters tonight. So no pace info. Grumble, grumble. I re-calibrated it during the cool down walk, so hopefully it’ll be better on Thur.
Why Browser-based Feed Readers are Free
“I +love+ the new Google Reader app on Facebook. Interesting that most people only have around five to 10 feeds.” – Robert Scoble I now understand why start pages (NetVibes, PageFlakes, iGoogle) have traction. A volume that low has a lot of flexibility in presentation – and comparatively light on server resources. Things get interesting …
I’m running in the St. Anthony, MN VillageFest 5k on Aug 4. Same neighborhood, different route, more…
I’m running in the St. Anthony, MN VillageFest 5k on Aug 4. Same neighborhood, different route, more people, and much earlier in the morning. If you’re in town – join me. UPDATE 4 AUG 2007: Results of my run and impressions of VillageFest 2007 here.
PodcampMN at Flat Earth on Aug 25, 2007
Yes, it’s official. PodcampMN, August 25th, the Saturday before Labor Day, at the Flat Earth Brewery in St. Paul. The goal is to try to accomplish some real, dirty, uncomfortable work… as Eric Rice describes it. If you haven’t yet, add your name and other things you’d like to both share and learn about to …
How to Construct an RSS 2.0 Feed for Faster Parsing
I’m parsing more and more RSS feeds and I’m seeing some very basic problems. While the feeds are valid, they’re obfuscated. Harder to parse – not by poor tag usage – but by misusing the content within the tags. Here’s a quick run down of the tags as documented in the RSS 2.0 Spec and …
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Looking for an app that tracks un/friend…
Looking for an app that tracks un/friending like buy/sell stock market gestures. I think Eric Rice mentioned this idea a while back. I’ll query his blog in the morning.
5k in 27:40
Held a firm 8 mn/mi for 2 ks before needing a 5 min refresher. I picked the pace right up again, hoding it for the duration of the run. Ending with a 8’51″/mi average. No 7s this time – and I can feel the difference – less of a driving rhythm, more on autopilot. Idea …